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Oct 13, 2009 | Hollywood.com

Melinda Dillon

A respected actress who brought both an endearing vulnerability and surprising intensity to many of her roles, Dillon began her career at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago and subsequently became an original member of the.... A respected actress who brought both an endearing vulnerability and surprising intensity to many of her roles, Dillon began her ...

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Thu Oct 01, 2009

The Wichita Eagle

Thursday's best TV

In "Great Nature ," President Franklin Roosevelt ushers in a golden age for the park system when he creates the Civilian Conservation Corps to battle unemployment during the Great Depression.

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Related Topix: Private Practice, Entertainment, Drama, Television, Music!, Drama Movies, Biography Movies

Sun Sep 27, 2009

City Pages

Film Highlight: Sound Unseen

Minneapolis's annual showcase of films about music launches this month with 20 movies screening at theaters around town.

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Related Topix: Drama Movies, Biography Movies, Music!, Woody Guthrie, Folk, Movies, Entertainment

Fri Sep 25, 2009

Slate

Being There, Coming Home, and how Hal Ashby became a master of the message movie.

This should have been a big year for Hal Ashby. In February, a 30th anniversary edition of his masterpiece, Being There , was released.

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Related Topix: Comedy Movies, Music!, Harold and Maude, Drama Movies, Biography Movies, The Last Detail, Animation Movies, Short, Family, War Movies, Coming Home, Bud Cort, Ruth Gordon

Wed Sep 23, 2009

Roanoke Times

Music is first love for "Deliverance" actor Ronny Cox - roanoke.com

Nine notes of some of the most recognizable music in movie history came courtesy of actor Ronny Cox's guitar-picking fingers.

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Tue Sep 22, 2009

Variety.com

'Exterminator' star Robert Ginty dies

Robert Ginty, star of action films such as "The Exterminator" who also wrote, produced and directed, died of cancer Monday in Los Angeles.

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Related Topix: Animation Movies, Short, Comedy Movies, Music!, Family, War Movies, Drama Movies, Biography Movies, Coming Home, Thriller, Action Movies, Two-Minute Warning, Baa Baa, Black Sheep, Theater, Arts, Home, Pop/Rock

Fri Sep 04, 2009

Creative Loafing Tampa

Warren Oates and Hal Ashby get the Hollywood biographies they deserve

Two ideal Hollywood bios: Actor Warren Oates and director Hal Ashby September 3, 2009 at 3:08 pm by William McKeen James Stewart once said that the reason we love the movies is that "they give us little, tiny pieces of time that we never forget." Too true, Mr.

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Wed Jul 22, 2009

Hollywood.com

Ronny Cox

For much of the 1970s and early 1980s, rangy character actor Ronny Cox was the actor of choice to play quiet, genial second fiddles who offered compassionate support to the leading men in Hollywood features and.... For much of the 1970s and early 1980s, rangy character actor Ronny Cox was the actor of choice to play quiet, genial second fiddles who ...

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Thu Jul 09, 2009

Film.com

DVD Review: Lookin' to Get Out

Normally when a film bombs, it drops from sight and is rarely seen again. It's rare that a notable box office debacle merits attention outside of museum screenings or cult circles.

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Tue Jun 30, 2009

WHOI

Carradine may have died from sex act: Thai police

US actor David Carradine may have died from a sex act gone wrong, Thai police said Friday, as they probed the evidence after the "Kung Fu" star was found hanged in his Bangkok hotel room.

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Related Topix: Kung Fu, Entertainment, Drama, Television, Kung Fu the Legend Continues, Western, Action Movies, Boxcar Bertha, Drama Movies, Music!, Biography Movies, David Carradine

Sat Jun 27, 2009

The Augusta Chronicle

Local filmmaker worked with Carradine

Although his experience as a movie director has been with Civil War soldiers and things that go bump in the night, Augusta filmmaker Christopher Forbes feels like his entire life has led up to making iconic American westerns.

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Thu Jun 25, 2009

Frankly My Dear... - Movies

Timely--LA copies Plaza's "rediscovery" of Harold and Maude

An article in today's Los Angeles Times shows why prints of the 1971 Hal Ashby classic Harold and Maude are out in a couple of cites.

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Tue Jun 23, 2009

CW2 Colorado KWGN-TV

Hal Ashby, turbulent genius of the '70s

A special Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences salutes Oscar winning film editor and director Hal Ashby on Thursday, June 25, at 7:30 p.m. at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.

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Fri Jun 19, 2009

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Eating Weird: "When you get blue, and you've lost all your dreams,...

"Lucky Day," Tom Waits My microwave died last week. RIP. It's probably at the dump by now, a lone cell in a macro-organism of human disdain.

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Related Topix: Drama Movies, Biography Movies, Music!, David Carradine, Recipes

Wed Jun 17, 2009

Associated Content

David Carradine, Kung Fu Master, Dies in Bangkok

David Carradine has been around the film and TV world for a long time. Since his days as Kwai Chang Caine in the 1970's TV show Kung Fu, David Carradine remained with his fans in various roles and functions, from advertising spokesman to playing villains in the Quentin Tarantino movies, Kill Bill I & II, to the TV show Charmed.

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Related Topix: Kung Fu, Entertainment, Drama, Television, Kung Fu the Legend Continues, Western, Action Movies, Drama Movies, Biography Movies, Music!, David Carradine

Mon Jun 15, 2009

NewsBlaze

Fans Say Farewell to David Carradine

LOS ANGELES : Friends and co-workers came out Sunday to pay their respect and honor the memory of actor David Carradine, who was found hanging from a hotel room closet in Bangkok less than three weeks ago.

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Sat Jun 13, 2009

The Sydney Morning Herald

Moves of the grasshopper

In extremis ... David Carradine's chosen form of indulgence, auto-erotic asphyxia, claims up to 1000 lives a year.

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Related Topix: Kung Fu, Entertainment, Drama, Television, Western, Action Movies, Music!, Drama Movies, Biography Movies, David Carradine, Tarzana, CA

Thu Jun 11, 2009

The WV Rebel's Blog

One Death In Bangkok

From the L.A. Times, remembering David Carradine : The actor, who made more than 100 films over a more than 40-year career, was found dead on June 3 in his hotel room in Bangkok, where he had been on location shooting a movie.

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Boston Globe

Burr: David Carradine - an appreciation

David Carradine as Kwai Chang Caine, the ''Kung Fu'' television role that made him a star and defined his career.

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Fox News

4Forensic Scientist Says Carradine Death May Be Linked to Auto-Erotic Asphyxiation

Speculation continues to swirl around the death of actor David Carradine. Early police statements pegged the 72-year-old's death Wednesday in Bangkok, Thailand as a suspected suicide.

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Related Topix: Kung Fu, Entertainment, Drama, Television, Music!, Drama Movies, Biography Movies, Western, Action Movies, David Carradine, World News, Thailand

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